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Olmert denies allegations of unlawfully receiving funds prior to premiership
Efrat Weiss, Aviram Zino
Published: 09.05.08, 00:27
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1. sad such a case rises, especially today - 60th anniversary f
(05.09.08)
2. Olmert allegations
alan ,   texas   (05.09.08)
resign! resign!
3. Denies Allegation
Brod ,   USA   (05.09.08)
Give him a Polygraph. Polygraph does not lie.
4. Let Us Not Celebrate Yet
Adina Kutnicki   (05.09.08)
If Olmert committed arson, and the accelerant was found on his person, he too would DENY, DENY he was culpable. There is little doubt that he raised scads of money for his campaigns. However, the people must not be fooled. He clearly took bribes, and that is probably just the tip of the iceberg. Neverthless, let us not celebrate yet that he will be indicted. He has enormous power and will exert so much pressure to make this go away that anything and everything is possible.
5. I've NEVER had sex with that woman!! And he looked us all
jan ,   usa   (05.09.08)
6. PM MUST GO
Dan ,   Titusville florida   (05.09.08)
An unelected PM tell us that he took money but did not accept bribes. He gave up Gaza getting NOTHING in return other than more terror attacks and dead Jewish children. He wants to give Jerusalem and the West Bank back to the Arabs. This is our gift on the 60th birthday of Israel. What ever happened to ethics and integrity, the very basis of what God expects of us?
7. Since when has Olmert been a stand-up comedian?
Daniel Pinner ,   Kfar Tapuach, Israel   (05.09.08)
"There was nothing wrong with the contribution funds raised on my behalf. The matter was handled by Attorney Uri Messer." You know that someone is in trouble when he expects the public to believe a lawyer more than himself.
8. Bye bye Olmert!
JAy3 ,   Israel   (05.09.08)
You wont be able to bribe or manipulate your way out of this one. I just hope you end up serving time!
9. Bye Bye Olmert
Yerach ,   Jerusalem,Israel   (05.09.08)
I hope you enjoy your new home in prison!!!!!
10. "Another one bites the dust"!!!! Hey, hey, hey, good-bye!!!
jan ,   usa   (05.09.08)
11. Olmert
Barrieg ,   Zichron Yaakov   (05.09.08)
The times has come to replace this man whose greed is greater than his care for our country. The next P.M.must be a Zionist whose love for our country must be greater than his love for money.
12. Depending on the polygraph test, the results can be skewed.
Rivkah   (05.09.08)
It would be difficult to skew the results of a NO LIE MRI polygraph or a polygraph that measures changes in temperature around the eyes. But the polygraph devices used today other than those two can be skewed by squeezing the buttocks or pressing the thumb into the palm or taking a muscle relaxant like Valium beforehand or if a person is crazy and believes the lie is the truth.
13. 7: Daniel Pinner: Glad to see you are out of jail
Rivkah   (05.09.08)
Did you decide to stay in Israel after a two year sentence for firing a weapon into the air in self defense when Muslims were attacking you? There is something about Israel that draws people to want to be there, perhaps a closeness to God's heart since Jerusalem is the center of the world from God's perspective. You don't sound bitter at all after being sent to jail even though you were in the country as a volunteer. Do you have a paying job, yet? Glad to see you are free.
14. Remember Nixon's "I'm not a crook" speech?
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (05.09.08)
Or Bill Clinton, "I didn't have sex with that woman" - later amended to "It depends on how you define sex". This will be remembered as Olmert's, "I look you in the eye" speech. Soon to be amended to, "It depends on how you define a bribe" -
15. "Its all lies," said the liar to the people who elected him.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Santa Monica,CA USA   (05.09.08)
16. We're supposed to believe HE would RESIGN!?
Stewart ,   USA   (05.09.08)
Somehow this sounds like a threat to thwart the indictment. Someone, please explain if there is anything to this suspicion?
17. To #13, Rivkah
Daniel Pinner ,   Kfar Tapuach, Israel   (05.09.08)
Thank you for the sentiments. In one sentence: yes, I stayed in Israel, because this is my home. See what I wrote, immediately after sentencing, at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/6152. There's a lot more to tell; contact me at islandutopia@gmail.com .
18. Bush's scandal
observer   (05.09.08)
The Israelis would like now to say, every PM, every president had his own scandal. Bush's scandal outfits his remaining time in office, it is reserved form him After office.
19. Time for him to resign
jason white ,   afula,israel   (05.09.08)
After ethnically cleansing gaza, the second lebanon war, arming and financing terrorists, giving up Jerusalem, Judea and Shomron, wanting to give up the Golan, living the border in the south open,ect. All of this should be enough for olmert to be jailed.
20. IT’S AMAZING !
AVROHOM BILGREI ,   ZION   (05.09.08)
Terms such as; "alleged suspicions", find their way into the chosen vocabulary of Efrat Weiss when the protagonist of the article is the likes of the despicable head of Kadima ! The carefully crafted circumspection of words chosen relating to the most highly prized trophy of access in the land ! NO INNUENDO, NO HYPERBOLE, NO CHARACTERIZATIONS, WRITTEN WITH THE JOURNALISTIC ACUMEN, DEXTERITY, AND VERBAL AGILITY OF A VETERAN WRITER ! We don’t see nothing like “The P.M. in a vortex of political fire from rightist extremist in recent month’s in the sixth major investigation of his tenure” or “The P.M. with unprecedented single digit approval ratings in recent months" Delicate deference of verbal choice so as to preclude any suspicion of a scintilla of partiality embodied in the phrase “apparently prompting” to avoid any modicum of conjecture ! The sanitary unbiased heading in red “P.M. probe” Not P.M. under fire, judiciary has P.M. on the ropes, tenure in jeopardy, NOT SO MUCH AS A NUANCE OF SUBJECTIVITY ! The circumspection of repeatedly invoking the word “allegedly” with a frequency unprecedented in her career more than suggests an intelligence; indeed testifies to that fact, that precludes any moderately sensible rational human being from exonerating her of any attributable ineptitude, to suggest that any slack should be cut for her vintage, slanderous, and consistent unrelenting destortive yellow journalistic tactics ! It is truly FLABERGASTING ! The dichotomy of verbal tact she assumes is beyond chameleon it's so blatentently incriminating, by all appearances suggests STUPIDITY but, preeminent in it's implications is that it evidences better than I ever could, my contention that she is a paradigm of journalistic harlotry and as as great an example of a disingenuous reprobate as one is likely to find in her "profession"!
21. HE APPOINTED DICTER..........................
IERGLIB DRAWDE   (05.09.08)
WHAT IS IT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ?
22. Jewish prayer to pin down democracy
(05.09.08)
they failed to displace him after successive failures, so they pray that a funding scandal does. have you heard about the new version of that revised prayer?
23. #17 Daniel Pinner, Kfar Tapuach.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (05.09.08)
I read your article in IsraelNationalNews. You're a real mentsh.
24. OLMERT DEFRAUDS USA
Jeffrey Segall ,   Leonia, NJ, USA   (05.09.08)
By setting up a US charity to fund his political ambitions, Olmert illegally used tax deducible charitable contributions for political purposes thus defrauding the US government by committing tax fraud. He also defrauded donors who thought they were supporting humanitarian projects in Jerusalem. He should be indicted for fraud in the USA.
25. 17 Daniel Pinner: Good article website. The justice system
Rivkah   (05.09.08)
in America is very bad, too. Former Wall Street Journal Editor Paul Craig Roberts calls it the American INjustice System. It is corrupt and totally different from the world perception of America. A woman named Demi McFadden told me that she was never harrassed for religious beliefs or anything else under the communists in the Czech Republic growing up and raising her children. She emigrated to America after her husband went to Canada and abandoned her and the children. An American married her and when they were sitting in a car with her son and daughter outside a dancehall in Sacramento,California, talking at night, a policeman came up to the car. He dragged them out and beat up her son and took them all to jail. The next morning, they were told no charges would be filed if they signed a paper saying nothing happened, which they did. She has been terrified of the police in America ever since and fled to Washington State when I asked her to testify on my behalf when a German woman raised in Hitler's German Reich, falsely accused me of threatening to kill her every day for SIXTEEN YEARS when I had been out of the country (in Israel) for four months and had only lived in California for five years and did not know where she lived (Inge Mingus of Hanford) or what her car looked like. She did that because she thought I was a Jew. The policeman who arrested me WITHOUT A WARRANT called me a dirty Jew and tried to kill me by grabbing my left arm as I opened the door, flipping me in a cartwheel onto my head. An MRI showed the concussion damage and a chiropractor told me half his patients were there because of injuries from being beaten up by the police. The world thinks America is a nice place and it is evil and corrupt. Power belongs to God and the people with authority who misuse their authority will be judged. I ask every day for God to avenge me because the Bible says to let God avenge wrongs. First there was a freak weather freeze that destroyed a BILLION dollars in crops, then a drought that destroyed the hay crop, then fires that raged from one end of the State to the other, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, then a twenty BILLION dollar shortfall in tax revenues this year for the state. Why is the WHOLE STATE of California being judged? It was the STATE OF CALIFORNIA that attacked me with false charges, so the entire State came under judgment. I continue to ask for revenge because I have not received an apology and a settlement. God is listening and until the people demand better government and impeach and throw out of office the corrupt judges and sheriffs and governors and mayors, etc., I will continue to ask for revenge since I have God's ear. The State pays these corrupt officials and police a retirement equal to their work salary, so until the State is bankrupt and stops rewarding the evil doers who unlawfully attack Jews and other lawful citizens wrongfully, my anger at the misuse of his authority will remain.
26. 23 Terry: Why do you insult him?
(05.09.08)
27. 17 Daniel Pinner: Last night there was another freak
Rivkah   (05.09.08)
weather freeze in California, the worst in ten years. It is lucky for Israel it was not me the Muslims were throwing rocks at instead of you. When I am wrongfully attacked by government authority, I never stop asking for God to avenge me until I am satisfied He has which means compensation to me. Before I was attacked wrongfully and hatefully in 2006, I was out of debt. Now our debts are about $200,000. from having to move and pay legal expenses and other costs that could not be recovered in the sale of the house our attorney told us to sell because of the hatred of Jews in Kings County, California. This morning I asked the Lord to avenge me all all those in California who misused their authority against me and others as well as false accusers and the answer that came back immediately was this: "Vengeance is Mine. I will repay, says the Lord". The fervent effectual prayer of a righteous person in the Lord avails much, the Bible says.
28. #27 are all all those in California muslims?
(05.09.08)
29. 28: The attackers were atheists and Roman Catholics.
Rivkah   (05.09.08)
None were Muslim to my knowledge.
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